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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Caribbean Assemblages, 1970s–2020
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Chapter 1 Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels
- Chapter 2 Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix
- Chapter 3 Carnival, Calypso and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing
- Chapter 4 Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative 1970–2015: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean
- Chapter 5 Forwarding Dubpoetry in this Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition
- Chapter 6 Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries
- Chapter 7 Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction
- Chapter 8 Caribbean Drama and Performance
- Chapter 9 Here Are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction
- Chapter 10 ‘Let Every Child Run Wild’: Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children’s and Young Adult Fiction
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Carnival, Calypso and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing
from Part I - Literary and Generic Transitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Caribbean Assemblages, 1970s–2020
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Chapter 1 Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels
- Chapter 2 Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix
- Chapter 3 Carnival, Calypso and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing
- Chapter 4 Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative 1970–2015: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean
- Chapter 5 Forwarding Dubpoetry in this Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition
- Chapter 6 Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries
- Chapter 7 Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction
- Chapter 8 Caribbean Drama and Performance
- Chapter 9 Here Are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction
- Chapter 10 ‘Let Every Child Run Wild’: Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children’s and Young Adult Fiction
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
With the aim of unravelling the role of popular culture in contemporary Caribbean writing, this essay focuses on how calypso, carnival and dancehall cultures have been used in the work of post-millennial Caribbean writers to examine issues of gender and sexuality. Caribbean writers employ innovative textual strategies, which draw thematically and stylistically from music and carnival. These textual strategies challenge the perceived boundaries between oral and scribal and between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultures, and they can create a platform from which to challenge misogyny, patriarchy and social injustice in the contemporary Caribbean and beyond.
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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 , pp. 52 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021